Planning

The North Wales Regional Education MIS Solution

  • Wrexham County Borough Council
  • Flintshire County Council
  • Denbighshire County Council
  • Conwy County Borough Council
  • Isle of Anglesey County Council
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  • Cyngor Gwynedd Council

F01: Prior information notice (prior information only)

Notice identifier: 2021/S 000-015324

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-02c34f

Published 5 July 2021, 10:55am



Section one: Contracting authority

one.1) Name and addresses

Wrexham County Borough Council

Commissioning Procurement and Contract Management Unit, Lampbit Street

Wrexham

LL11 1AR

Contact

Rachel Glynn

Email

rachel.glynn@wrexham.gov.uk

Telephone

+44 1978292792

Country

United Kingdom

NUTS code

UKL23 - Flintshire and Wrexham

Internet address(es)

Main address

www.wrexham.gov.uk

Buyer's address

https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA0264

one.1) Name and addresses

Flintshire County Council

County Hall, Mold

Flintshire

CH7 6NA

Email

procurement@denbighshire.gov.uk

Telephone

+44 1352701814

Country

United Kingdom

NUTS code

UKL23 - Flintshire and Wrexham

Internet address(es)

Main address

www.flintshire.gov.uk

Buyer's address

https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA0419

one.1) Name and addresses

Denbighshire County Council

Wynnstay Road

Ruthin

LL15 1YN

Email

procurement@denbighshire.gov.uk

Telephone

+44 1824712612

Country

United Kingdom

NUTS code

UKL13 - Conwy and Denbighshire

Internet address(es)

Main address

www.denbighshire.gov.uk

Buyer's address

https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA0280

one.1) Name and addresses

Conwy County Borough Council

Bodlondeb, Bangor Road

Conwy

LL32 8DU

Email

procurement@conwy.gov.uk

Telephone

+44 1492574000

Country

United Kingdom

NUTS code

UKL13 - Conwy and Denbighshire

Internet address(es)

Main address

http://www.conwy.gov.uk

Buyer's address

https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA0389

one.1) Name and addresses

Isle of Anglesey County Council

Isle of Anglesey County Council, Council Offices, Llangefni

Anglesey.

LL77 7TW

Email

procurement@anglesey.gov.uk

Telephone

+44 1248750057

Country

United Kingdom

NUTS code

UKL11 - Isle of Anglesey

Internet address(es)

Main address

www.anglesey.gov.uk

Buyer's address

https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA0369

one.1) Name and addresses

Cyngor Gwynedd Council

Uned Caffael / Procurement Unit, Swyddfeydd y Cyngor, Stryd y Jel / Council Offices, Shirehall Street

Caernarfon

LL55 1SH

Email

caffael@gwynedd.llyw.cymru

Telephone

+44 1286679787

Country

United Kingdom

NUTS code

UKL12 - Gwynedd

Internet address(es)

Main address

www.gwynedd.llyw.cymru

Buyer's address

https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA0361

one.2) Information about joint procurement

The contract involves joint procurement

one.3) Communication

Additional information can be obtained from the above-mentioned address

one.4) Type of the contracting authority

Regional or local authority

one.5) Main activity

Other activity

ICT


Section two: Object

two.1) Scope of the procurement

two.1.1) Title

The North Wales Regional Education MIS Solution

Reference number

Proc-20-133

two.1.2) Main CPV code

  • 72212190 - Educational software development services

two.1.3) Type of contract

Services

two.1.4) Short description

The North Wales Regional MIS group, acting on behalf of the 6 North Wales Local Education Authorities, are seeking to engage with the market for a regional Education MIS solution. The regional group comprises of Wrexham, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Conwy, Ynys Môn and Gwynedd local Education Authorities.

two.1.5) Estimated total value

Value excluding VAT: £900,000

two.1.6) Information about lots

This contract is divided into lots: No

two.2) Description

two.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)

  • 48000000 - Software package and information systems

two.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS codes
  • UKL23 - Flintshire and Wrexham
Main site or place of performance

This solution will cover the 6 North Wales Local Authotities which are:- Wrexham, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Conwy, Ynys Môn and Gwynedd

two.2.4) Description of the procurement

The North Wales Children and Young People (CYP) MIS Consortium provide management information systems support to Wrexham, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Conwy, Ynys Môn and Gwynedd council’s in providing services to children and young people. We are looking to engage the market for a software solution

two.3) Estimated date of publication of contract notice

1 April 2022


Section four. Procedure

four.1) Description

four.1.8) Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: Yes


Section six. Complementary information

six.3) Additional information

The North Wales Regional MIS group, acting on behalf of the 6 North Wales Local Education Authorities, are seeking to engage with the market for a regional Education MIS solution. The regional group comprises of Wrexham, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Conwy, Ynys Môn and Gwynedd local Education Authorities.

We are looking to engage the market for a software solution that would meet the following requirements:

Software requirements

Record information relating to Children, Young People and Parent/Carers including:-

- Admissions

- Attendance

- Attainment

- Early years

- Exclusions

- Free schools meals

- School/childcare establishments

- Transport

- Supports integration or import of data from existing council and LA software systems particularly necessary for the purpose of inter authority Admission files

- Is cloud hosted

- Supports Integration or import / export of data from and to the LA's schools MIS, namely ESS SIMS

- Ability to integrate securely with each individual authorities ‘customer account’ using Single Sign on Solution for customers such as SAML or oAUTH.

- Integrates with Sharepoint

- The ability to archive and delete for GDPR /Full compliance with GDPR requirements

- Portal facility for parents/guardians to apply for school places, transport and FSM/Uniforms

- Portal facility with schools (already detailed but also need it for reporting and dashboard functionality)

- GIS Functionality of distance calculations within Mapping solution – for walking, driving and direct distances for Admissions and Transport calculations and ability to annually update/refresh maps

- Ability to adapt portal to each LA’s specifications and branding requirements for seamless transition from LA public website to the application portals for Admissions, Transport and FSM – English and Welsh requirements.

Additional learning needs

- Ability for each authority to retain their own dataset but to be hosted together

- Access to the system from various platforms in all six authorities

- Ability to automatically transfer pupil data including attendance from Schools MIS Systems

- Ability to automatically transfer pupil data to schools MIS System

- Ability to identify conflicts in data between schools and LEA

- Portal facility for parent/carers to apply for School places and Transport and amend their details.

- Portal for schools/childcare providers to view data relating to their pupils

- The facility to record multiple services providing support/interventions to young people.

- Link to an appropriate mapping solution to view locations and routes on maps

Within the software the following functionality is also required:

- Fully bilingual

- Accessible from a range of devices

- Send alerts/emails to users

- Facility for users to generate reports

- Send emails/alerts to portal users

- Full auditing facility

- Import data in a range of formats

- Export data in a range of formats

- Automatically calculate distances using GIS

- Automatically rank pupils in order of eligibility criteria for school places

- Link seamlessly with other systems e.g. Social care systems if required

- Test and Live environments

- Automatically rank pupils by a range predetermined criteria

- Ability to customise/adapt portal to each Authorities own specification

- Ability to restrict grant access to data on a granular level

- Import bilingual address files and validate addresses

Please can you send an overview of your solution to Rachel Glynn, ICT Category Manager to the following email address: - rachel.glynn@wrexham.gov.uk

Can responses be sent by Monday 26th July 2021

(WA Ref:112048)